Game Reviews

I recommend this one over the smaller model made by the same company. This one is much more playable.

THIS TOY IS VERY DURABLE AND CAN PROVIDE MANY HOURS OF FUN. I HAVE HAD IT FOR 7 MONTHS AND IT IS GREAT. I RECAMEND IT FOR A BASEMENT OR FOR ANYWHERE!!!!

Who'd thought that pinball mixed with basball could equal this? This is an antique "Piseball" game where players take turns batting, the object is like baseball! GET THE MOST RUNS! Teams can be 1-9 players long and should prove to be a grand-slam game for any audience! The Japanese have a game on the Super Nintendo that's based off of this exact game! This is a great game for all ages.

i cant wait for this game I found this game in an old Pcgamer and was interested my the screenshots. i then looked online and found out what it was all about . i can say this game look incredable. the graphics are mesmerising and just ...wow. the game play looks like somthing that i have been looking for in the PC for a while. i loved the game ZOE and this as close as i am gunna get for PC. summed up i cant wait and it will be in my hands the day it comes out

As one of the beta testers, I have to say that the wait between OMF 2097 and OMF: BattleGrounds is well worth it!! OMF:BG is fully 3D and it looks outstanding. If you were a fan of the first OMF game, then you will be a fan of this one. You might have seen some screen shots of the game, but not all the screen shots serve the game justice. The demo is coming out soon, so don't base your judgement on the game by the screen shots and what other people are saying, but on the demo.

For the past several years, the PC Gaming industry, and in particular the first tier publishers, have shunned the PC Fighting genre due to a lack of market in the early days of the platform. Over time, this lack of content and games has forced many game sites, both online and in print, to stop recognizing fighting games as a spearate genre altogether, grouping them instead with action games in terms of content and reviewing procedures.

One Must Fall:Battlegrounds, in development by Panama City Beach Florida-based Diversions Entertainment, may finally be the groundbreaking game to change all that, re-igniting interest in PC fighting and introducing the world of gamers to the first ever truly multiplayer 3D internet fighting experience. For the past year and 5 months, I have enjoyed the opportunity to play this game as it has developed from a OpenGL-based "rough cut" to the more refined 85% completed Direct3D product that currently plays in a beta pool that has grown to over 400 members.

When first introduced to the One Must Fall game, the first and most striking thing to be recognized is the graphical beauty this game serves up as it pitches together 90 foot bots in gigantic arenas. From the animated fire sparkling aroudn the top of the ring in the fire pit, to the starry night sky twinkling above pharoahs fire, to the glistening beauty winking up from the frozen pierced steel planking that forms the upper structure of the iceberg, this game delivers crystal clear textures, scalable high resolution, crisp colors, beautiful original particle effects, and a robust reflections system. This Direct3D based engine demands a Transform and Lighting capable video card but is sufficiently optimized to allow even low to mid end gamers to play albeit with some lower graphical settings.

We all know that when it comes to gaming, eye candy is nice but it means nothing (particularly in a fighter) if the gameplay isnt up to par. Having already delivered the Gamespy-Hall-Of-Fame One Must Fall 2097 title in 1994 (Published by Epic Megagames), Diversions Entertainment (DE) leaves no doubts and solidly delivers. The control system allows directional movement, 4 basic strikes, jump, and evade. Moving away from the intensity based strikes of some more traditional games, OMF instead gives players the capability to execute left and right side punches as well as left and right side kicking. A single press unleashes a basic move of medium power. Adding a directional press to an attack unleashes a second tier of moves for each bot, allowing players to make quick strikes with each of the four attacks or to make strafing moves with the evade button (double tapping a direction in combination with evade allows a player to dodge in a direction to get around some attacks). Three-button-sequences such as up,down, left-punch create a whole third tier of attack options, allowing individual bots to make use of signature moves of medium to high magnitude, all these without use of the "super" energy. Each bot is additionally empowered with 2 to 3 super moves which create large swaths of individual or area damage, devestating when drawn out in close combat but requring built up energy to use.

Although berift of the long complicated move lists encompassed in a traditional console fighter such as Tekken or Soul Calibre, the OMF combo system is dynamic, relying on players stringing together series of quick, powerful move combinations in order to form multihit combos to devestate opponents. The highest combo that i have personally been witness to thus far is 16 hits, although some beta players have made claims of the ability to score as high as 20 against an opponent. This unique approach to the combo system allows beginners to jump right into combat with the intuitive controls while still allowing more advanced players to make use of memorized move sequences or "skill" combinations against opponents.

The engine powering One Must Fall:Battlegrounds is actually the crown jewel of this game, an entirely custom build by the DE development team. The modularized engine uses a java-like scripting language to set up artificial intellegence routines, game content, game movement, specific articles, and other content loaded in a DE Objects format. The engine also has been constructed to allow highly modifiable game content, recognizing third party content as just as genuine as developer created, with the server controlling what may or may not be loaded for modifications. In addition, the modularized segregation of input, output, control, and interaction functions allows games constructed with this engine to be easily ported from platform to platfom, with relatively little cross platform development time invested.

The graphical, gameplay, engine flexibility, and solid performance of this game have kept me coming back for more for over a year and 4 months, validating several years of waiting in the One Must Fall community. Players will not be disappointed when the game releases later this year, estimated for general release in the second quarter.

I tried the demo of bugdom 2 from my MacAddit CD and guess what,
you can only play it once and that's it!!
It only makes you want to buy it right away to continue the game.
I searched the website for 2 months before you made the game
available, SHAME ON YOU!!!

Thanks for making it available.

Bugdom 2 is a clever and fun family game for Macintosh users. The hero is Skip the Grasshopper. A bumblebee has stolen his knapsack, and you will take him through a variety of tasks in a wide array of environments to get it back. There are ten levels, and the renditions are beautiful and charming. You start in The Front Yard (aka the scene of the crime), and this is a good level in which to acquire skills such as jumping, flying and kicking. Levels include The Back Yard; Fido's Fur (where you stamp out ticks and fleas); two levels in which you "surf" down a pipeline past obstacles; outrageously fun levels in the house's Playroom and Closet (with terrific details and thrilling action -- dodging vacuum cleaners! riding cars on a toy racetrack! completing a jigsaw puzzle! -- that leave our young 'un screaming with delight); a bombardier trip on a model airplane; and finally, a jaunt through The Park, fleeing ferocious frogs and gape-mouthed fish, battling picnic-crashing ants and ultimately retrieving your knapsack from the bumblebee's hive.

Along the way you'll kick acorns to find valuable clovers and extra lives, and collect powerups from the ubiquitous butterflies, who shower you pleasantly with flowers as they deposit strawberries and blueberries or arm you with "buddy bugs", who can assault the resident flies and fleas from a distance.

There is action as well as problem solving with no killing, though you do kick enemies. A wonderful Kids Mode turns most of the dastardly villains into neutral observers so that little ones can play without getting freaked out. I'd say a 5- or 6-year old could play unassisted, but our toddler loves playing the game with us and performs many of the actions. Use the arrow keys to move, the Space Bar to jump or fly (and it's really fun to be able to fly!), Control to kick, Tab to send a buddy bug out, and Option to pick up or drops objects (so you can get maps from Sally Chipmunk or complete errands for Sam the Snail). An electronic manual explains things well. The Return key lets you switch between four perspectives that vary in your distance behind Skip's shoulder. The levels are large with occasional checkpoints, but you can only save the game at the end of the level.

We've found two problems with the game that are annoying but surmountable, and will probably be fixed with a patch: the Garbage Can task of popping all the soda can tabs does not seem to work -- you have to pop them all then leave the game sitting for a while and come back in order to find the key you need; and sometimes when you are trying to jump to reach the top of the picnic basket the flowers are not solid but drop you through.

Pros: Fun, interesting, immersive environments. Flying. Volume, music and perspective controls at the keyboard so you can make immediate adjustments easily. Kids Mode tames the villains for younger players. Pleasant music. Good electronic manual. Developed on Macs for Mac users.

Cons: A couple of annoying bugs in the program. No key reassignment. Not being able to save except at the end of levels.

Caveats aside, our child has enthusiastically learned to use the arrow keys and now performs multiple key stroke maneuvers. I am an old first-person shooter player but I still find this game fun, and I've found my husband playing when he thinks we're all asleep. Fun for the whole family!

Bugdom 2, if anything, is a great game. It has everything that made its elder game, Bugdom, addictive and exciting---with some new things, too. It has many different levels, with different but equally challenging tasks on each one: find a shell, get acorns, fly a plane, save trapped critters, and battle, yes, Otto Matic. New features are also abound. Instead of the well-know bowling ball mode of Rollie McFly, Skip, the grasshopper hero of Bugdom 2, can fly for limited amounts of time (reminds me of Nanosaur).
If you're bored, or just looking for some decent, cartoonish RPG in a sea of Resident Evils, Bugdom 2 is a very good choice.

PGA Championship Golf is a great game. It has wonderful graphics and many courses. Many other golf games only have two or three courses, but PGA has about 8 (not exactly sure). This makes the game countinue to be interesting, even after months. It works good on slow computers, the redraw time on a P166 is 2 seconds; pretty quick. You can create players, and detail them down to their shoe color and style. There is an included set of "Tour Players" you can play a tournament with, which is nice for some competition. The biggest plus is the course designer. It comes included, and is very easy to use. It is very user friendly, and also detailed. You can even put sounds onto your course, and the radius in which the players will hear it. PGA is a great, fun golf game. It is beautiful in a graphics standpoint, and fun to play. It may be the best golf game on the market, even better than Links LS 2000. Enjoy this wonderful game! :)

I have been playing Links for years, and tried this title mostly for the course designer. To my surprise, the game is loads of fun. It has more of a 3D feel than links as far as the graphics go. The course designer is really cool. It takes a lot of time, but there is nothing like playing your local courses on the computer in the middle of winter when there is snow on the ground. My only complaint is aiming your shot is a little more difficult than Links.

This is a very good golf simulation. The graphics are great, even on a PC without 3d cards. You have different options for play, Tri-Click or Trueswing. The Trueswing has 2 options, horizontal or vertical (Vertical you pull back and move forward the mouse while horizontal you move left to right) Tri-Click is a bar that move up and down (Power bar) and you click where it reaches your desired power. I prefer trueswing because i think its more realistic. The are 7 courses with game but you can download new ones from the internet. Also a course architect which lets you make your own course. There are 3 types of play, recreation, practice and tournaments. In tournaments you can play individually or in team play. I could go on more about the features and there are alot more but this is just a great game and anyone, golf player or not should have this in their game collection.

okay, now time crisis is known for being an extremely fun light-gun shooting game, and it provides maximum enjoyment, maximun replay value, and even bonus games. most of the bonus games are arcade games, such as "agent training", and in my opinion, all of the bonus games are pretty lame, but the crisis missions are very fun and sort of challenging, (if your pretty experienced, then you can go through about 20 of the missions the first time without screwing up)as the missions start getting really hard on the fifth day (they are divided into days) also, time crisis 2 portrays nice challenges to get extra stuff to do in the arcade mode, such as: 1)if you beat arcade mode twice, then you unlock the option of unlimited ammo; 2)if you beat arcade mode without continuing, then you unlock the option of mirror mode, where the screen is flipped around and left is right and right is left (it doesnt sound like its much, but when you do it its a whole new experience). now onto the review....

STORY 4.5/10

As Time Crisis is known for great gameplay, it is also known for crappy storylines. The story is pretty much linear: rescue the kidnapped girl and stop diaz from launching a nuclear sattelite. As the story is not that great, the voice acting is not that great either. This game is not about story, though, so do not worry about it too much, as you will grow used to the cheesy storyline and acting

SOUND AND MUSIC 8.5/10

GREAT music during gameplay. it makes me actually pause the game and listen to it. They even remixed the original Time Crisis music so it sounds a little...rock-ish. The only problem I have with the music is during the cutscenes, the music makes me want to rip my own head off, along with the person who made that music, as it is that annoying.

On a very positive note, the sound effects are astounding. The gunshots sound very real, the grunting of the men when they fall to their death makes it seem you actually are in the middle of a crisis battle, producing some fun there.

GAMEPLAY 9.5/10

The gameplay in this game is extremely fun and addicting, allowing you to play one or two players at the same time. Namco has also added a quite original and fun way to play the game: double gun mode. This mode lets you play with two guns at once (apparantly), and if your thinking, reloading is not that hard. but beware, your accuracy percentage is sure to go down quite a bit. The only thing I think they should have added on are shields for the enemy. Just one shot will kill the enemy, making it a little too easy there. In order to get a real nice challenge, I put the game mode on Very Hard. But do not worry, the game is still very fun

GRAPHICS 9/10

Extremely good graphics, as water looks like water, lasers look like lasers and so on. nothing more to say

REPLAY VALUE 10/10

This game is a very fun game, and you have different experiences each time you play different modes such as regular 1p, two-player, double gun, and mirror mode. I recommend that you get this game and play with a guncon 2, not a guncon 1

Time Crisis 2 is my first shooting game I got for my PS2 and so far its one of the best.....Haven't heard of or played the game until I saw it at the arcades and decided to get the game. I took the risk as a used game at a gaming store saving me about $23. The game AND the gun work great as a pre-owned game....So far its fun cuz you get to blow up a few stuff(ex.: a gas truck behind two cars and an enemy group). I recommend this game for shooting game fans.

This game is the reason to own a guncon! At first, this game may seem like it doesn't have much to offer. You probably played most of these levels at the arcade.

This game is different than other guncon games though. There are a ton of extras and even a fun shooting range mode. The shooting range mode shoots these 2 discus' and you gotta shoot them before they hit the ground. I played it for hours it was so fun.

The game also has a storyline of somesort with some interesting badguys and nice environments. If you actually take time to look around, you will notice that the areas are really nicely done. Time Crisis 3 is alright as well, but that is a different game. 5 star games!

I was very surprised to see that my children love this game. It looks so simple, but it's not. It's one game that is not necessarily easier for adults - a great game for the family to play. It's a good where you have to thing a little bit about what reactions your actions might cause.

Affordable fun.

A chance to relive your childhood. Or are you haven't had that first time around then now is the time to enhance it. Both games require skill coordination strategy. They have been played down through the ages before there was plastic and rubber, however I must confess they are more fun to play with plastic, rubber, and metal.
Just on the outside chance that you missed these games, pickup sticks have different point values, and the object to pick up the stick with out disturbing the surrounding sticks. (Easier said than done). With jacks there are endless combinations however the main one game is to pick them all up one at a time then two at a time and so forth, The is an intrinsic joy on hearing the tinkle of metal jacks compressing in ones hand. The ball may bounce or just kept thrown up in the air like we used to do when it was a rock.
This has a fun factor of five, as it never gets tiring. Not much in the educational field and other than the coating on the ball it will outlast your enthusiasm.

This set is terrific for hours of fun! My kids had never played jacks or pick up sticks and they LOVED it! Even my 15 year old! We spent hours tonight playing a couple of the card games and the pick up sticks really gave my son's fine motor skills a work out.
And this was the ONLY place I could find the 'real' jacks-metal ones. Every store I went too, in person and online, only had rubber ones.

I am sooo pleased with this game! I read the two previous reviews and knew I had to have this game. This is a "no pressure" game. You just work puzzles, like on the table at home. These are brain teaser puzzles. You have to get all the pieces put in a certain way to win the puzzle, and it really helps you to exercise your concentration abilities. There are 150 puzzles, and a cute little blue blob, with pink eye lids, to play with. I am challenged, but not overwhelmed by this game. I highly recomend it! We need more games like this. Not all of us enjoy shooting and fighting and being eaten by things games. I just like to challenge my mind. I play my Gameboy to relax! I love this game! Thankyou for letting us post our reviews. It "does" help!

There are no races against moving objects and things falling on you, no running around bizarre landscapes and buildings gathering objects to complete your mission, and no shooting or fighting. You work the clever puzzles at your own pace to clear the screen, and exercise your brain instead of your thumbs. As you succeed at each level, you move on to the next which is slightly/somewhat more challenging than the one before it. A major plus is the password for each level which lets you resume where you left off or drop back to a previous level if you wish. There is a premise/story behind the game - you have to go through all the levels to save the hero and the world - but it is really irrelevant to actually solving the puzzles. Challenging and fun. And with 150 levels, you definitely get your money's worth. What more could you want?

I am an adult who is addicted to Game Boy strategy games and this is one of the best. It is almost as good as Boxxle which is one of my favorites.The only drawback is that there are only 150 levels. I wish there were more. This game takes a lot of thinking and planning to figure out how to break balloons and make matching blocks disappear. It has a password for each puzzle which is helpful when you need to quit (which I don't do to often). I am on level 110 and will be upset when I reach 150. I hope there is a sequel.

A very fun racing game with pretty decent graphics and over 15 tracks to play and a very cool track editor. Track editor has many cool things you could put down on it! Ex: Many kinds of jumps, ice, road with no walls, make large hills, tunnels, 3 different kinds of turns, select your own soundtrack in the options, set many different themes in the options, and a special soundtrack.
While playing the game on one of the games tracks there are many hazards and hidden shortcuts. (Look around you'll find a shortcut.) And Many cool power ups that look like a 3D diamand with a question mark (?) on it. Most of the power ups are: Bouncing Mines, shockwave, missles, Fake power ups that are dynamite, invincibility, lasers that shoot from your antenna, and the bonus cars you win from championships have a special power up of their own. Play the game you'll enjoy it if you like racing!![...] And Don't Forget The RC Boats!

This game will provide you with many happy hours of racing. While there is one little problem: The CPU cars tend to stay together. As a result one little move can put you in last place. Don't let this bother you though. It is still a really fun game. Do you like Kart Racers? Then get this one!!

This may look like anyother racing game, but its not. To start off you have a choice of 15 different RC cars and their boat counter-parts. Then you can choose where you race from 5 different themes, horror, jungle, sci-fi, space, or cartoon. After that you add weapons to stop the other cars. you can pick up heat seeking missles, lightning, oil slicks, and lasers. All Together this is a very cool and fun game.

Kids really love this game! What a wonderful diversion to T.V. ,video games, and bad weather. They played for several hours, completely focused on their tasks...they actually had to think (about something besides homework!) We were not discouraged because they could find almost everything on the cards. A great way to spend an afternoon.

What a great rainy day or cottage game. We took it on holiday with us and every kid in the campground was playing. What a hit! They became more and more creative with each game they played. Thanks for such a great game....maybe I'll get the adult version, who knows we may have even more fun than the kids!

Wow! Scaventure Kids was a great find. The kids wanted to play on and on. We were amazed at how resourceful they were and how well they played in teams. They just loved it and can't wait to play again. It's a great way to keep the kids busy and entertained.

I started off discovering Shining Force II back on the old Genesis system, so of course when I fell in love with that game I turned quickly to the old Shining Force I. I really didn't like it as much, it just was more bland and annoying (particularly the promotion aspect). So I was a bit hesistant with this game (which is, if you haven't picked up on it by now, a remake of the Genesis Shining Force I). However, when I did finally get it and played it I was amazed with the improvements added to the remake.

First of all, this game has added in clear bonuses. Before each battle the game will lay out the victory conditions and also give you a clear bonus (usually to win the battle in a certain number of turns). Accomplishing that clear bonus nets you either cash or a weapon that cannot be bought for another town or two. These clear bonuses really spice up battles, as it's no longer a matter of whether you can win or not (you almost always can) but whether you can win FAST enough (which is not nearly as easy).

The second major improvement is cards. There are 55 player and boss cards strewn about the world for you to find. The player cards are obtained by searching through towns and talking to people while the boss cards are obtained by killing bosses with certain people landing the final blow. Hunting these cards obviously adds a lot, but it doesn't stop there. A new character, Mawlock, has been added to the game. Mawlock's big draw is that he EQUIPS these cards and they give him various attributes etc. So not only can you now hunt for cards, you can use them in a variety of different ways to customize a character's abilties.

And the final big improvement is the revamping of the promotion system. In the old Genesis version promoting your main charcter made him so weak he could only stand on the back lines and watch. This has thankfully been taken care of and promotions, while they do weaken your characters a bit at first, are made much, much more managable.

If you played either of the original Shining Force games for the Genesis this is a must-have game. For those new to the strategy RPG realm, this is a quality game to start in on as well. With the new remakes and improvements this is not only one of the best RPGs for the GBA, but one of the best RPGs out there right now period. This is a game every RPG fan should have.

Shining Force was released in 1993 on the Sega Genesis system. It was basically the strategy RPG game that started the genre that includes Tactics Ogre, Final Fantasy Tactics, and others.

Shining Force was an excellent game with great characters, battles, plot, and everything else you'd expect and desire. I, personally, spent countless hours engaged with the game, never wanting to put it down or stop.

The ensuing sequels and prequels to the game never really captured what the original did, however. But, a new jumpstart to the game has arrived. Now on the Gameboy Advance, Shining Force: Resurrection of the Dark Dragon is a direct port from the Genesis version, but contains very nice updated graphics, sounds, AI, story elements, gameplay elements, and more. The new features don't destory the game and make it some 2004 version, rather it takes what the game was and improves upon it.

This game and Final Fantasy Tactics Advance are both extremely entertaining and excellent Gameboy Advance strategy RPGs. Make sure you pick up Shining Force: Resurrection of the Dark Dragon, because you'll be glad you did, and because it's one of the best strat-RPGs ever created. This is a five-star game all the way!

A great game gets remade and boy does it look good!

Sound- 4.5 out of 5
the music and sound effects are great but the reason i gave it a 4.5 is because it seems like they tried to do such a nice job on the music in the game but really not many people would notice it because really not many people play gameboy with sound in the first place, it just waste the batteries

Story 5 out of 5
The story in this game is still the original Shining Force but is given a small twist with 3 new characters being a ninja, a guru, and even get this a guy who does special tricks with these cards i gave it a five because it all flowed in with the original story perfectly!

Graphics 5 out of 5
the graphics in this game are wonderful for a gameboy advanced game, they are mainly like the graphics from shing force CD only with all new battle sprites witch give the game a new and even better look

Replay Value 5 out of 5
I thought that this desserved a special section all for itself. a Very nice new feature is (SPIOLERS!!!) every time you beat the game there will be a new option opened up called new game+ where the difficulty of the game get harder and every time you beat it it gets harder making you want to test your abilities.

Mainly if you are a fan of games like Advanced Wars, Fire Emblem or Golden Sun you will love this game and play it for hours and hours nonstop!